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 "excerpt": "Wo Yuan Jiang Xin Xiang Ming Yue (我原将心向明月, also 我本将心向明月) is a 2024 Chinese vertical short drama by Zhangyue, directed by Xie Shuai, premiering 16 December 2024; a rural mother-in-law mistaken for a mistress, it ranked 4th on Douyin with 13.6亿 playback increment.",
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 "markdown": "# Wo Yuan Jiang Xin Xiang Ming Yue\n\n**Wo Yuan Jiang Xin Xiang Ming Yue** (*我原将心向明月*, also circulated as *我本将心向明月*) is a 2024 Chinese vertical-screen short drama (micro-drama) about a rural mother who is humiliated by her future daughter-in-law at her son's engagement banquet, produced by Zhangyue Short Drama (掌阅短剧) and directed by Xie Shuai (谢帅). It premiered on 16 December 2024 and runs 36 episodes of 47 minutes each in the drama encyclopedia listing.<sup>[1](https://duanjubaike.cn/drama/15522)</sup> The title adapts the line \"我本将心向明月，奈何明月照沟渠\" (\"I turned my heart toward the bright moon, but the moon shines on the ditch\"), an expression of unreciprocated devotion from the Yuan-dynasty play *The Lute* (《琵琶记》) by [Gao Ming](https://www.edgepedia.org/gao-ming) (高明).<sup>[2](https://www.xxsy.net/ask/qqbxalwiqxask)</sup>\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Format | Chinese vertical short drama, urban family-ethics genre with \"face-slap villain\" (打脸虐渣) tropes<sup>[1](https://duanjubaike.cn/drama/15522)</sup> |\n| Production | Produced by Zhangyue Short Drama; directed by Xie Shuai<sup>[1](https://duanjubaike.cn/drama/15522)</sup> |\n| Release | Premiered 16 December 2024; 36 episodes at 47 minutes per the drama encyclopedia<sup>[1](https://duanjubaike.cn/drama/15522)</sup> |\n| Main cast | Liu Qingxin (刘清心) as Yang Shuhua, Zhang Shiyuan (张诗媛) as Shen Zhiyao, A Jun (阿君) as Ding Wei, Liu Xuling (刘旭玲) as Su Chenxi<sup>[1](https://duanjubaike.cn/drama/15522)</sup> |\n| Audience score | 8.2 rating with 60,000 page views and 17.11 million heat points on the drama encyclopedia<sup>[1](https://duanjubaike.cn/drama/15522)</sup> |\n| Commercial performance | 13.6 hundred-million playback increment, ranked 4th on DataEye's Douyin native real-person hot-play list<sup>[3](https://pdf.dfcfw.com/pdf/H3_AP202601211818183880_1.pdf%3F1768989101000.pdf)</sup> |\n| Long-tail reach | One of only two dramas in the TOP100 with total plays above 1 billion (10亿) in the September 2025 monthly report<sup>[4](https://www.jiemian.com/article/13464758.html)</sup> |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Plot\n\nYang Shuhua (杨书华) makes a living selling tofu in the countryside. She travels to the city to attend the engagement banquet of her son, the company president Xiao Shaoyu (萧少宇), but because she looks young for her age, her not-yet-married daughter-in-law Su Chenxi (苏晨曦) mistakes her for a \"mistress\" (小三). Because Su Chenxi is pregnant with a Xiao-family child, Yang Shuhua decides to give her one more chance to reform, hoping she will return to the right path; Su Chenxi persists in her behavior and does not repent, which thoroughly disappoints Yang. Meanwhile, Xiao Shaoyu gradually uncovers the truth of how his mother was bullied by Su Chenxi. In the end, Su Chenxi learns Yang Shuhua's true identity as her mother-in-law and is filled with regret; her dream of becoming the president's wife collapses and she meets a miserable end.<sup>[1](https://duanjubaike.cn/drama/15522)</sup>\n\nStreaming aggregator pages expand the opening: Su Chenxi, intending to please her mother-in-law, goes to the station to meet her, fails to recognize her because Yang arrives early, and clashes with her over a trampled carpet; later, photos of the well-preserved Yang in a gown posted by her son convince Su Chenxi that Xiao Shaoyu has a mistress, and she leads her friends to search the hotel and lock Yang in a storeroom.<sup>[5](https://m.gutadj.cc/showvod/38xq.html)</sup>\n\n### Episode-count discrepancy\n\nThe drama encyclopedia lists 36 episodes of 47 minutes.<sup>[1](https://duanjubaike.cn/drama/15522)</sup> Streaming aggregator sites, which often re-cut or re-number short dramas, list the same title as 60 episodes<sup>[5](https://m.gutadj.cc/showvod/38xq.html)</sup> or 50 episodes,<sup>[7](https://m.mamuzj.cc/metavod/y2qKUH/27.html)</sup> and other catalog pages give 74.<sup>[8](https://www.lufadj.cc/)</sup> This kind of episode-count variation across platforms is common in the micro-drama market, where titles are frequently renamed, re-edited, and sliced into clips.<sup>[9](https://huangguoduanju.blog/dramas/)</sup>\n\n## Reception and performance\n\nThe drama became one of 2024's late-year breakout hits with an unusually long tail. In DataEye's 2025 micro-drama industry data report, it ranked fourth on the Douyin native-platform real-person hot-play list with a playback increment of 13.6 hundred million (13.6亿), and the report notes that five of the TOP20 increment titles were 2024 releases, evidence that older dramas kept contributing substantial traffic.<sup>[3](https://pdf.dfcfw.com/pdf/H3_AP202601211818183880_1.pdf%3F1768989101000.pdf)</sup> The September 2025 monthly report from DataEye (the research arm cited by Jiemian News) recorded that across that month's TOP100 micro-dramas, only two exceeded 1 billion total plays, and one was *Wo Yuan Jiang Xin Xiang Ming Yue*, launched the previous December, the other being *Liren Meigui* (《利刃玫瑰》).<sup>[4](https://www.jiemian.com/article/13464758.html)</sup>\n\nOn the drama encyclopedia it holds an 8.2 rating with 17.11 million heat points, tagged under urban daily life, urban, president/CEO, and face-slap-villain categories.<sup>[1](https://duanjubaike.cn/drama/15522)</sup> Short-video clips on Douyin also drew large engagement, with one promotional video tagged #爆款短剧 (hit short drama) showing 192,000 likes.<sup>[6](https://www.douyin.com/video/7499720834525711666)</sup>\n\n## Same-title works\n\nThe phrase in the title is a widely reused cultural motif, and several unrelated works share it. A 2025 short drama also titled *我本将心向明月*, directed by Guan Yiyang (管翊扬) with Li Zhiyi (李志一) as Gu Tingjun and Liu Xueying (刘雪莹) as Chu Yueru, runs 50 episodes on iQiyi and tells a different story of a missing second heir to the Gu family who returns to reclaim his inheritance.<sup>[10](https://www.iqiyi.com/a_kab1eeoxvh.html)</sup> A realist autobiographical novel of the same title by Liu Wenyou (刘文友), a signed author on Qidian under Yuewen Group, records four decades (1980s to 2018) of a northern Jiangsu rural youth's literary pursuit across sixteen chapters and over 600,000 characters.<sup>[11](https://www.xs8.cn/baike/1gmqm4tw4z656)</sup> A Mandopop single titled *我本将心向明月* by Shangguan Yao'er (上官瑶儿) was released on 16 May 2023 under Flying Saucer Culture (飞碟文化), with the song and its instrumental version totaling about six minutes.<sup>[12](https://music.apple.com/us/album/%E6%88%91%E6%9C%AC%E5%B0%86%E5%BF%83%E5%90%91%E6%98%8E%E6%9C%88-single/1746875538)</sup>\n\n## References\n\n1. [我本将心向明月 - 短剧百科](https://duanjubaike.cn/drama/15522)\n2. [我原将心向明月 - 潇湘书院问答](https://www.xxsy.net/ask/qqbxalwiqxask)\n3. [DataEye 2025年微短剧行业数据报告](https://pdf.dfcfw.com/pdf/H3_AP202601211818183880_1.pdf%3F1768989101000.pdf)\n4. [9月微短剧月报：红果热度再破新高，界面新闻 · JMedia](https://www.jiemian.com/article/13464758.html)\n5. [我原将心向明月 - 谷塔短剧](https://m.gutadj.cc/showvod/38xq.html)\n6. [我原将心向明月 #短剧 - 抖音](https://www.douyin.com/video/7499720834525711666)\n7. [我原将心向明月 - 马木追剧](https://m.mamuzj.cc/metavod/y2qKUH/27.html)\n8. [鹿发短剧 - 短剧爱好者的天堂](https://www.lufadj.cc/)\n9. [短剧大全 - 微短剧剧名索引与剧目档案资料库](https://huangguoduanju.blog/dramas/)\n10. [我本将心向明月 - 爱奇艺](https://www.iqiyi.com/a_kab1eeoxvh.html)\n11. [我本将心向明月 - 小说百科](https://www.xs8.cn/baike/1gmqm4tw4z656)\n12. [我本将心向明月 - Single - 上官瑶儿, Apple Music](https://music.apple.com/us/album/%E6%88%91%E6%9C%AC%E5%B0%86%E5%BF%83%E5%90%91%E6%98%8E%E6%9C%88-single/1746875538)\n\n---\n*Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › International serial drama and telenovelas › East Asian drama series › East Asian web and streaming serials › Titles symbols to Co*\n\n*Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026*\n\n*Copyright 2026 EdgeChat AI, a subsidiary of Biostate AI.*\n\nLicense: Edgepedia Community License 1.0, https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license\n",
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